Sorry Ray
if you have the impression I am "Asking people to start playing around with bios updates, overclocking CPU and/or GPU settings etc,"
That's not my intention!
I offered my help to find out what can be done
to optimize a PC and find the bottleneck or culprit if it does not work properly.
Afair I asked nobody to overclock anything!
A PC is just a simple machine, but the parts in it have to play together like an orchestra,
but if one musician makes anything wrong the whole symphony sounds bad.
A bios update is nothing dangerous anymore, as it can be easily done with tools offered by the manufacturers.
If I see there are running parts out of the specs I show a solution to fix it.
I am working with PC's since 1989 and DOS 2.1...
In my IT history I had many situations when a bios tweak or any massive overclocking attempt could have failed.
I have mechanicaly manipulated Thoroughbred CPUs still running primestable after ~10years boosted from 1.6 to 2.1GHz
What makes me sick is the attempt of big manufacturers to capitalize the nescience of their customers. Just read about Colin's PC...